During his keynote address opening Popkomm in Berlin Robin Gibb accused the European Commission of behaving in an “unhelpful and dogmatic fashion”. The Bee Gee and President of CISAC (Confédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Auteurs et Compositeurs), the umbrella organisation for 222 collection societies around the globe, announced that CISAC had lodged an appeal against the EU’s July decision ruling against the bilateral reciprocal licensing practices of collection societies in Europe.
Billboard, MusikWoche, and Music Week have some excellent coverage of this complex issue. Required reading.
